David Vine is Associate Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. David is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). His new book, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Overseas Harm America and the World, will
be published by Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt in August 2015. Many of
David’s articles and information about his books and other work can be
found at www.davidvine.net.
